Word Meanings - TUMOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,

Additional info about word: TUMOR

A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. -- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. -- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation. -- Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TUMOR)

• Excrescence
• Superfluity
• redundancy
• imposthume
• tumor

Related words: (words related to TUMOR)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• TUMOR
  A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,
• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• TUMOROUS
  1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.
• TUMORED
  Distended; swelled. "His tumored breast." R. Junius.
• EXCRESCENCE
  An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences
• SUPEREXCRESCENCE
  Something growing superfluously.
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant